Quotes About Specialization

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

This is what happens, perhaps, if you have been studying something so long that you can tell one sea anemone from another in an instant, could have picked out any denizen of those tidal pools from a lineup if it had committed a crime.

It was as if I had spent thirteen years specialising in a certain language, only to discover all its speakers had scattered and renounced their native tongue. No, worse than that, because at least dead languages could be studied. This was as if I had spent my life learning to play a certain unique instrument, only to see some crazed vandal smash it to pieces.

Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

The main thing that sets experts apart from the rest of us is that their years of practice have changed the neural circuitry in their brains to produce highly specialized mental representations, which in turn make possible the incredible memory, pattern recognition, problem solving, and other sorts of advanced abilities needed to excel in their particular specialties.

Imagine a world in which doctors, teachers, engineers, pilots, computer programmers, and many other professionals honed their skills in the same way that violinists, chess players, and ballerinas do now. Imagine a world in which 50 percent of the people

I want to do one thing and do it well.

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well.

Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. I'm a developer of the technology.

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

I pride myself on the defensive end. That's where I earn my keep.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.